Barry Smith:
Meet Barry Smith,
30, Trinidad and
Tobago’s latest Soca
artiste with a
penchant for
dancehall and reggae
music.
He has been writing
and singing his
music for the past
seventeen
years.
He started his
musical career in
his school days at
Pleasantville Senior
Secondary and has
never looked back.
Some of the
influences for his
music and
compositions came
from his
participation in
Best Village
competitions, which
provided him with
the rhythms while
playing the drums.
He was also
participated in the
2007 season of
Synergy Soca Stars.
Barry has teamed up
with Dennis Smith, a
well-known panist,
to produce his first
recordings for the
2013 Carnival
season. The songs
are
All Night, a
soca jam written by
Barry, and the track
featured here,
Gih Me
Some More, written
by Dennis Smith.
In his short career
as a singer/composer, Barry has
written
approximately twenty-five
songs, with fifteen recorded to
date.
There is no limit to
this young man’s
talent and with his
love and dedication
to his music; the
sky will be the
limit.
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